In the good spirit of cooperation between Novell and KDE, Novell Poland contributed a large number of translations of KDE documentation to the Polish localisation team. The contribution contained 119 translation files and over 5700 translated messages (see this commit). Due to the long queue of translations it took us a while to process them, but we got them in to the recent KDE 3.5.3. We would like to thank Novell Poland for this contribution. We hope to see more cooperation in the future to bring the best desktop environment closer to the needs of non-English speaking users.

Given that Poland suffered from Russia and Germany in the history a lot, I'm quite sure you upset polish people, attributing Poland to Russia. An old joke goes as follows "Are the Russians and Polish brothers or friends? Brothers - you can choose your friends." (Probably wors with Germans as well, but I heard it only this way around.)

For Novell it's a market of 40 million people in the middle of Europe. Having a proper localization is the basis to get a piece of the Cake.

IIUC he just wondered why there was *another* contribution to the Polish translations (in another posting I read that there had already been two, one from Mandrake and one from Novell) and he suggested helping the Russian translations.

It's normal that non native speakers are making that kind of mistakes. I didn't even noticed this "again Polish" and "Polish again". In English this makes difference, but for me it is clear that Nick wondered why we have third commercial translation contribution since about half year :)

And some other interesting thing. Nick, why you asking about Novell Russia, when you have an Ukrainian e-mail adress? ;)

Given that Poland suffered from Russia and Germany in the history a lot, I'm quite sure you upset polish people, attributing Poland to Russia. An old joke goes as follows "Are the Russians and Polish brothers or friends? Brothers - you can choose your friends
First I didnt get it!! Then I had to think. Good one. Do you know why they make fun of polish people, calling them dumb. I am polish by marriage. I resent that. They things about my African-native american, English self too.

Novell didn't hire anyone from Polish translation team. I'm not quite sure that they paid someone else for this translation. I heard that translation has good quality (I didn't check), so maybe some people from Novell have translating this.

Problems with terminology? Sometimes yes, but (agin) I'm not sure if in this case. Previously Polish translation team received contributions from Mandriva Poland and Novell (now it's second time that Novell contributes to translations). And previously we had to check all these files, because they've had many grammar errors, typos and of course terminology differents. Now co-ordinator has submited all files at once, so they must be good :-)

There were some issues with bringing the translation to consistent state with other translations (especially the vocabulary) and the translations were for previous version of KDE and had to be updated. That's why it took so long.